Umar Bin Laden, son of the founder of the deadly terrorist group al-Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden, has been reportedly deported from Normandy village, where he has lived with his wife since 2016, following an alleged tweet made in 2023 which glorified terrorism.
French Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau revealed on Tuesday that Umar Bin Laden had been ejected from the country with no permission to return any time soon following an allegation levelled at him. Umar has tried to prove his innocence, but all to no avail, as his justification seems not to be convincing enough to the French government.
According to Le Publicateur Libre, a local newspaper, a controversial tweet was made on X (formally called Tweeter) on the 2nd of May 2023 with an account named @omarbinladin1, glorifying the legacies of Osama Bin Laden on a day that coincided with his birthday. The post read, “History is written only with the blood of these people — to tell the story of these martyrs who made history, built nations and brought glory. Their blood is the lifeline of our faith until judgment day. Rest in peace.”
Umar claimed that an unknown user from another country hacked into his account and made the post; “A person from another country managed to get the password for my Twitter account and posted a Tweet using my name. They were not my words. I reported the Tweet to Twitter, and after a week or so, the account was thankfully blocked,” He said.
According to Umar, he lost access to the account and couldn’t even delete the post when it was made. He revealed that he does not support terrorism and will never endorse it. “I no longer have access to my Twitter account,” he added, “so I was unable to remove it myself. I want to tell people I condemn terrorism and violence with all my heart”, Bin Laden added.
Omar is the son of the late Osama Bin Laden, the Saudi-born founder of the al-Qaeda terrorist group and the brain behind the 9/11 terrorist attacks, which claimed over 3,000 lives in the most prominent terror attacks on United States soil, which occurred in 2001.
Reports suggest that Umar Bin Laden followed his father, Osama, to Sudan and, subsequently, Afghanistan when he was expelled from Saudi Arabia. He began training with the al-Qaeda terrorist group at the age of 14 but left them in the year 2000.
